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If Everyone Flushed At Once, What Would Happen?

Posted 03.28.2012

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By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 03/26/2012 03:38 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries provides exper...

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OCCUPY TOILET: Women Demand Shorter Bathroom Wait Times

Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Women, Gender Equality, Beijing, Women's Toilets, Toilets, Occupy Toilets, Occupy Restroom, China Toilets, China, Occupy Bathroom, Women's Restroom, World News

Ladies, you've been there. Standing arms-crossed in a winding line of women, edging slowly toward the restroom as men push past through the door with ...

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Public Toilets vs. Newly Potty Trained Kids

Amber Dusick | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Parenting, Cartoon, Comic, Humor, Potty Training, Toilets, Public Bathrooms, Raising Boys, Parents-Toddlers, Parents News
Amber Dusick

Don't fall for that potty training propaganda. Keep them in diapers as long as possible. Public bathrooms are not fun places to take grabby kids who like to explore everything.

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Top 10 Water-Related Things to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving

Steve Fleischli | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Congress, Showers, Santa Monica Bay, Water, Agriculture, Toilets, Clean Water Act, Environment, Slidepollajax, Clean Water, Wetlands, Oceans, Wastewater, Pollution, Green News
Steve Fleischli

This Thanksgiving I'm thinking about all the amazing ways in which water makes life better -- ways that are perhaps so fundamental to our everyday existence.

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Arin Greenwood

D.C. Protests Grow, Along With Their Trash

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: DC News, DC Protests, Occupydc, Occupy Wall Street, Toilets, McPherson Square, Occupy Dc, D.C., Strip Clubs, DC News

WASHINGTON -- "Trash is the biggest issue, and no one wants to be on the sanitation committee," said Geko, a 25-year-old Occupy Wall Street protester ...

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Jason Cherkis

Occupy Dallas Arguing With City Over Toilets

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Occupy Dallas protesters have been camping on a swath of downtown land since Oct. 7. The spot, known as Pioneer Park, has come to resemb...

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October Is WHAT Month?!

Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: October, Humor, Comedy News, Humor and Satire, Comedy, Maggie Lamond Simone, Toilets, Comedy News
Maggie Lamond Simone

We're lifting the lid on "Toilet Repair Month." I know, I know, I'm sort of down in the dumps about it too; just when you think you could overflow with excitement about summer, there it goes, swirling away. May it rust -- er, rest -- in peace.

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Gerard Depardieu Laughs At Plane Peeing Incident, While Wearing Pigtails

Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Dublin, Public Urination, France, Paris-France, Toilets, Global Pulse, Air France, Bathroom, Gerard Depardieu, Klm, Europe Travel, Travel News, Cityjet, Airlines, Entertainment News

Even Gerard Depardieu himself can't help but laugh at his infamous plane peeing incident. The French star, who peed in the aisle of a CityJet plane...

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Depardieu Publicly Pees on Plane...

AOL Travel News | Posted 10.17.2011

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The French actor Gerard Depardieu gave the passengers on a CityJet flight from Paris to Dublin quite the show on Tuesday when he reacted to the news h...

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Lucas Kavner

Can One Company 'Turn Sh*t Into Gold'?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 07.31.2011

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For two years, David Auerbach worked as a teacher in China's Hunan Province. Though he believes his time was well spent, his stomach turned pictur...

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Senator Rand Paul, I Can Find You a Good Toilet!

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Scher

Rand Paul seems to believe the federal government is not allowing him to own a functioning toilet. I found this strange, because I own a functioning toilet. So, I thought, perhaps I can help the senator find some relief.

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Stockholm Water Confab Rings Alarms, Offers Hope

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

According to freelance journalist Rose George, a child dies from diarrhea -- usually brought on by fecal-contaminated food or water -- every 15 seconds. But human waste can be used to good purpose.

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Bill Gross, Bond Billionaire, Discusses 'Doo-Doo Stuff' In Letter To Investors

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Gross, the billionaire founder of PIMCO, the world's largest bond investor, began his latest correspondence to investors with an extended discuss...

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Report from South Asia: Is Universal WASH Access in Reach?

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Arsenic, Hygiene, Diarrhea, Water, Bangladesh, Toilets, Children's Health, Sanitation, World News
John Sauer

I've been amazed at how much is happening on the ground. Despite the multitude of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) problems, the issue seems entirely solvable here.

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Jonah Hill for "World Toilet Spokesman"

Adam Yamaguchi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Adam Yamaguchi

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Worshipping at the Porcelain Altar: How Toilets can Change the World

Steve Fleischli | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Fleischli

If I had to make a list of things Americans take for granted, the toilet would be near the top. That's because most of us don't really think about to...

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Many Toilet Lines Have No End

Claire Bernard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Water Day, Kenya, Water, Clean Water, Capital Hill, Toilets, Sanitation, Green News
Claire Bernard

A flying toilet is a plastic bag that used for defecation and then discarded by being thrown into the air, but in a densely populated area like Kibera, the flying toilets can only land on roofs.

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Africa Water Project Captures Difficulty Of Global Struggle

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph B. Treaster

Strong leadership is missing. A few members of Congress have been working on the water problem and Matt Damon, the actor, has made it his cause. But the issue is not getting traction.

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Save Those Presidents

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Chameides

Presidents' Day sales are so retro. Get with it, and save presidents in the 21st century fashion. The Presidents' Day holiday was officially establish...

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In Aspen, It Would Be $3,500 a Month

Todd Hartley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recession, China, Toilets, Dr. Seuss, Aspen Real Estate, Hangzhou, Colorado Real Estate, Real Estate, China Real Estate, China Economy, Denver News
Todd Hartley

10 Chinese migrant workers are living in a public bathroom in the city of Hangzhou, meaning that their living situations haven't exactly gone down the toilet, but they are quite literally in the toilet.

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

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Betwa Sharma

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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7 Gifts that Give Back to the World

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Walden

This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.

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Latest Space Shuttle's Mission: Trash the Urine Recycler

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Poop, Water, Shit, Space Shuttle, Space, Toilets, Technology News
Alex Pasternack

When the space shuttle launched on Monday, it wasn't carrying a new satellite or even burrito ingredients. It was packed with a bunch of spare parts f...

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Does Your Toilet Really Need to Chirp Like a Bird? Japan's Un-green Lifestyle Expectations

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Green, Japan, Energy Consumption, Green Living, Consumption, High-Tech-Toilets, Toilets, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

After a 20-day trip, four Japanese social norms made me wonder if pledges for extremely ambitious greenhouse gas emission cuts are realistic.

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Do Toilets Gross You Out?

Kiri Westby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bathroom, Pee, Urine, Excrement, Toilet Paper, Toilets, Reality, Life, Paradigm Shift, Healthy Living News
Kiri Westby

Regardless of the antibacterial soap and the special seat liners, public bathrooms can bring out the inner hypochondriac in all of us, myself included.

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